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Hi guys! We have exciting news! Thanks to the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards we’ve been able to buy ourselves a Microsoft Kinect. We don’t have the Xbox 360 yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun with it. Who needs and Xbox if you can use Kinect with Etoys?

After seeing Stephen Howell’s great work using Kinect with Scratch, we followed his steps and made it available for Etoys as well. You can see it for yourself in the video below:

How to install it?

The installation steps are a little unfriendly for the moment, and I only tried this in Windows, sorry. The following steps were taken (and modified a little) from the Scratch forums, original here.

After this steps you should have the kinect drivers working properly (except for the audio drivers, which are not needed anyway). The Kinect green light will blink slowly once the drivers are loaded properly. It never goes solid green.

You can test it by opening one of the samples at “C:\Program Files\Prime Sense\NITE\Samples”.
If none of them work, check windows Device Manager. You should end up with something like this:

Other devices

Xbox NUI Audio – with an error icon

PrimeSensor

Kinect Camera

Kinect Motor

In Windows XP the drivers didn’t installed as easily as in Windows 7. If your Device Manager shows something different from above, try installing the driver found in here: “C:\Program Files\Prime Sense\Sensor\Driver”.